Authors
Barbara Bigelow is the vice president of METAvivor Research and Support, Inc.
Eugenia Mancini Horan is an artist, lifelong anxiety sufferer and an early patient of humor and laughter as her medicine. She spent 2019 finding then fighting stage 4 lung cancer and defeating it by 2020, most likely one of the coolest things she’s done. That year in the medical system an end-stage cancer patient with 0% odds gave her a unique perspective about illness and survival. She proudly mothers two questionably behaved dogs and is married to the man who carried her everywhere that year she couldn’t walk. Gina has aspirations to change the world of oncology and also wants to be on the "Great British Baking Show," with only a fundamental lack of skill keeping her from the show. Nothing stops her battle for better patient care.
Melanoma as a Medical Student
Susan Keller has a 30-year career as a medical writer and has won awards in national and regional poetry contests. Magazines including Psychology Today, Conquer: The Patient Voice, Patient Power, and two Guideposts magazines are all running articles about Susan’s journey with lymphoma. She has also been featured in the media, including the Marin IJ and the Argus Courier. "Blood Brother: A Memoir" is now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble Nook.
